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General Assembly

The General Assembly is the supervisory body of ESPI. It is composed of representatives from the member organisations. It i.a. defines the general long-term guidelines for the Institute.

The General Assembly is chaired by FFG/ALR. Representation as of October 2017:

Name:

Represented by:

AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE

Rodolphe Paris

ARIANESPACE

Alexandre Archier

ASI

Gabriella Arrigo and Maria Cristina Falvella

BELSPO

Claire Chaudière

CNES

Donato Giorgi

DLR

Nicolas Peter

ESA

Isabelle Duvaux-Béchon

EUMETSAT

Paul Counet

EUTELSAT

Jean-François Bureau

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Sabine Lecrenier

FFG/ALR

Andreas Geisler (Chairman)

NSC

Hans Morten Synstnes

ROSA

Marius-Ioan Piso

SES

Christine Leurquin

THALES ALENIA SPACE

Olivier Lemaitre

Advisory Council

The Advisory Council gives the Secretariat medium-term orientations with respect to the research and network activities of the Institute.

The Advisory Council is chaired by Ms. Genevieve Fioraso. The current composition is the following:

Professional background 2003-2007, CEO of Minatec entreprises, a public-private company welcoming in clean rooms start ups in the field of micro and nanotechnologies and biotechnologies, created via partnerships between private companies and public research laboratories, mainly CEA-Tech...

From 2001 to 2004, part time expert for a telecom operator (Orange) in the field of innovative services for health and social applications. In 1999, creation and general management for 2 years of the Rhône-Alpes agency for the diffusion of digital in regional SMEs (ARN, Agence Régionale du Numérique). From 1995 to 1999, director of cabinet of the mayor of Grenoble. From 1989 to 1995, deputy general manager of a start-up, CORYS, spin-off from the French Energy commission (CEA), specialized in the design of simulators for training operators in the field of energy (nuclear, thermal, electric networks) and transportation (trains and tramways). In charge of institutional relations and European RandT projects (Eurêka, Phare and Tacis programmes). From 1979 to 1986 : collaborator of Hubert Dubedout, Mayor of Grenoble and member of the French Parliament, successively in charge of press and documentation, communication and Parliament relations.

Teacher during 2 years in Amiens from 1975 to 1977, then moved to Grenoble in 1978. Political commitment Since 2015, Member of scientific boards of Marseilles Infectiology IHU (Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire) and Clinatec in Grenoble, of Paris Imagine Health Scientific Foundation and of the University Grenoble Alpes Foundation. From January to July 2016: missioned by French Minister Manuel Valls for a report on space “Open Space, the opening as answer to the challenges of the space sector” (www.genevieve-fioraso.com). April 2015: Back to the French Parliament, member of the Defence Commission and parliamentary space group.

2014-2015: Secretary of state for higher education and research, including space, within Manuel Valls 1 and 2 governments. Resignation in March, 2015, for personal reasons. As minister, government’s representative and contributor for Ministerial Conference of the European Space Agency in Napoli, 2012, and Luxembourg, 2014 where Ariane 6 launcher was decided by ESA state-members 2012-2014: Minister for higher education and research, including space, within Jean-Marc Ayrault government 2007-2012: member of the French Parliament and of the Parliament Office for the evaluation of scientific and technological choices (OPECST), member of the commission for economic development and energy.

Publication of 3 reports on industry and energy budgets, 1 report on synthetic biology and 1 report on technological transfer from research to industry 2001-2012: deputy mayor of the City of Grenoble and 1st vice-president of the Grenoble urban area, in charge of economic development, universities, research and innovation.

Since 1 April 2011, Gerd Gruppe is Member of the DLR Executive Board, responsible for the German Space Admin istration. Born in 1952, he grew up near Aachen in the very Western part of Germany.

He received a degree in mining from RWTH Aachen University. Upon completion of an internship at the Bureau of Mines in Munich, he obta ined a doctorate degree in Energy Marketing at Augsburg wh ile continuing to pursue his career. He then transferred to the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology. Initially, he was responsible for promoting research and for technology transfer, and later had his first professional experience with space.

In the late 1980s he was involved in the establishment of the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) at DLR's Oberpfaffenhofen site. Later, as Head of the Department of Research, Innovation and Technology at the same ministry, he greatly advanced the development of Bavaria as a location for space activities, particular ly with his involvement in the Galileo Control Centre and the world-renowned Robotics and Mechatronics Center - both based at DLR Oberpfaffen hofen.

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Professor Kabat is director general and chief executive officer of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an independent, international, science, and science-to-policy institute. IIASA has 24 member countries, nearly 400 international staff, and a global research network of around 2,500 scholars and over 600 partner institutions. Professor Kabat is also full professor of Earth System Science at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, founding chair and director of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and Arts Institute for Integrated Research on the Wadden Sea Region (the Wadden Academy), a member of the Leadership Council for the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and co-founder of the high-level Alpbach – Laxenburg Group. The latter brings global leaders from academia, governments, businesses, and civil society together to support and advocate for sustainable transitions and sustainable development.

Trained as a mathematician and hydrologist, Professor Kabat’s almost-30-year research career has covered earth system science and global change, with a specific focus on land-atmosphere interactions, climate hydrology, the water cycle, and water resources.

He is an author and coauthor of over 300 refereed publications (including 9 books), a member of 3 international editorial boards, and (co)editor of numerous special issues of peer-reviewed international journals. He has also contributed as lead author and review editor to the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Other academic and societal awards and distinctions received by Professor Kabat include the Zayed International Prize for the Environment (which was awarded to all the experts who worked on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in 2005), and several honorary degrees, professorships, memberships, and distinguished fellowships internationally.

In 2013, Professor Kabat was honored by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix Knight with the Order of the Netherlands Lion, a national order of chivalry founded in 1815 by King William I, which recognizes excellence in the arts, science, sport, and literature.

Since 1997, Sergio Marchisio is full professor of international law at the Sapienza University of Rome. He started his academic career in the Seventies as assistant professor and chargé de cours of international law at the Universities of Florence and Camerino. In 1979, following a concourse at the national level, he gained the title of full professor and was called firstly at the University of Camerino and then at the University of Perugia, until his appointment at the University Sapienza of Rome in 1997. He is Director of the 2nd Level Master Course in International Protection of Human Rights and of the Training Course on Refugees and Migrants. Member of the Scientific Board of the PhD in “Public, Comparative and International Law” and Member of the Academic Board of the Sapienza School for Advanced Studies. His main scientific interests are, among others, the formation of general international law, the law of international organisations, international environmental law, human rights and disarmament, space law, development cooperation law.

Founder and Former Director of the Institute for International Legal Studies of the National Research Council (1995-2011), he is now Associate Professor to the Institute. During ten years, he supervised and edited the research on the "Italian Practice of International Law", published in 1995 by the CNR (I-VIII volumes). Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society for International Organization and Member of the Italian Human Rights Committee. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Council for Refugees (CIR); Correspondent Member of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT); Italian Correspondent of the TMC Asser Institute, The Hague. During ten years (2001-2011), he acted as Secretary General of the Italian Society of International Law (SIDI). From 1995 to 2015, he was also adjunct professor of European Union Law at Faculty of Law of the LUISS G. Carli University.

He is an internationally recognized expert on space law, field that he covered with several publications, starting from "Lezioni di diritto aerospaziale" in 2000. Co-Director of the Master Course in Space Policy and Institutions, organized by the CNR, the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Member of the Scientific Committee of the Master IDEST "Droit des telecommunications et des nouvelles technologies" of Paris Saclay, Faculté de droit Jean Monnet. He is Member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Space law (IISL), confirmed in September 2016. Full Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). Member of the Académie de l’air et l’espace (ANAE), the London Institute of Space Policy and Law, and the Chinese Academy of Astronautics. Since 2015, he is member of The Hague Space Resources Governance Working Group.

In 2011, he received the Award IAA for Social Sciences for his contribution on space law. In 2015, he received the IISL Distinguished Service Award for his leadership in the development of international law and institutions and his leading role for advancing international space law in the United Nations and other intergovernmental bodies. Since 2007 he is Chairman of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) within the European Space Agency (ESA). Since 2017 is Member of the Advisory Council of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI).

Beside his scientific achievements, he also carried out a number of functions as Legal Advisor at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Italian Delegate to many international diplomatic conferences, such as the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992); the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (Rome, 1998); the Diplomatic Conference to Adopt a Mobile Equipment Convention and an Aircraft Protocol (Cape Town, 2001).

Since 1997, he is Italian Delegate to the UN Committee on the peaceful uses of outer space (COPUOS, Vienna), where he served as Chairman of the Legal Subcommittee (2004-2006). In 2010, he was elected co-chair of the Expert Group D of the Working Group of the COPUOS Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (STSC) on the Long term Sustainability of the Outer Space Activities (LTSSA). Italian Delegate to the European Union Council's committes on space and disarmament, he was member of the task force of the EEAS-EU for the International Draft International Code of Conduct on Space Activities (ICoC). In 2015, he was appointed by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy as chair of the multilateral negotiations on an ICoC held at the United Nations in New York. In 2012, he was appointed by the UN Secretary General member of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Outer Space Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures established by UN General Assembly resolution 65/68. Between 2001 and 2012, he chaired the Committee of Governmental Experts entrusted to negotiate the UNIDROIT Space Assets Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. In 2012, he was elected Chair of the Commission of the Whole of the Berlin Diplomatic Conference, which adopted the Protocol. He is member of the Specialized Panel of Arbitrators of the Permanent Court of Arbitration established pursuant to the Optional Rules for Arbitrations of disputes dealing with spacer matters.

In 2009, he was appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) as member of the Task-Force for setting up the Italian Register of the Objects launched in Outer Space. Since 2014, he is Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Space Agency.

2016 – now

Chair of Eurisy

Acting collectively to bridge Space & Society

2014 – now

Chair of YouSpace

Platform to improve interaction between Universities & Professionals of Space

2007 – 2014

Senator

- Vice-President of the Social Affairs Commission

- Full Member of the Foreign Relations and Defense Commission

- Full Member at the Advisory Committee of the Senate for Gender Equality

- President of the "Space" Workgroup at the Senate

- President of the European Interparliamentary Conference of Space (2013)

- Full Member of the Finance and Economic Affairs Commission

- "Woman of Peace" Prize by the Belgian Council of Women (2011)

- MR President at the Senate (2009-2010)

Benelux Parliament

- Member of Benelux Parliament

Interparliamentary Union – Belgian group

- Vice-President at the UIP in the bilateral sections of Portugal, Azerbaijan and Georgia

- Member of the bilateral section of Armenia

President of « La paix passe par les femmes » Association

The aim is to bring women of South Caucasus to get involved in the process of peace and reconciliation.

2008 Order of the National Coat of Arms, 2nd class, Republic of Estonia

2007 Royal Order of the North Star, 1st class, Sweden

2007 Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria

2005 Commander's Cross of the Order of Republic of Poland

2004 Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

2004 The Medal of the Estonian Academy of Sciences

2003 Grand Officer of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique, Portugal

2002 Republic of Estonia Science Award in Exact Sciences

2001 Order of the White Star, 4th class

Since March 2003, Ingolf Schaedler is serving as Deputy Director General for Innovation at the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT). In this function he is responsible for the development and implementation of the Ministry’s technology policy, its strategic technology programmes and the related R & D infrastructure. On the level of the European Union Ingolf Schaedler is representing Austria in various high level committees related to Research and Technology Policy, Satellite Navigation and Space Policy.

In 2012, Ingolf Schaedler chaired the World Congress on “Intelligent Transport Systems” (ITS) and since December 2010, Ingolf Schaedler serves as chairman of the governing board of the EU-Joint Programming Initiative “Urban Europe”.

Ingolf Schaedler studied Economics at the University Vienna and International Law and Politics at Johns Hopkins University, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy.

Professional Career

Pechiney

November 1973 to August 1979; Aluminium Pechiney sales

Assistant to the export Director and responsible for market analysis and management of the commercial network

September 1979 to August 1983; Alucam (Cameroon)

Commercial Director for Pechiney Group in Central and West Africa

September 1983 to December 1987; Aluminium Pechiney

Head of the purchasing department of Aluminium Pechiney Group with responsibility of establishing and negotiating large and international supply contracts of raw materials and products for Pechiney plants

Aerospatiale Group and then EADS and Astrium

December 1987 to December 1994

Commercial Director of the Space Transportation Directorate and later of the Space and Defence Division

January 1995 to July 2000

Deputy Director for the Aerospatiale then EADS Director for International business and commerce.

Director for Europe and North America

July 2000 to January 2011; Astrium

Senior Vice President reporting to the president of Astrium, in charge of Institutional Relations

Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries of the XVII Governement - Portugal

2002-2004

1994-2000

DG Enterprise and Industry – Food and Biotechnology Unit

Chief negotiator and Coordinator of trade negotiations, bilateral and multilateral, in the Food industry: WTO, European Economic Area –EEA, Switzerland, Turkey, Eastern European Countries, South Africa, Mercosur, Mexico, Tunisia, Morocco

From 2001 to 2002

Principal Adviser at the Portuguese Permanent Representation to the European Union (Brussels), Foreign Affairs Ministry of Portugal

From 1977 to 1994

Senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Portugal, where he held several management positions: , Director for Agricultural Markets, Head of Unit on Cereals, Head of Unit on Monetary Issues and Prices. He participated in the access negotiations and the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy in Portugal

Mr Silva holds a Degree in Economics obtained at the Lisbon Higher Institute of Economics-ISE

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